10 Best Exercises For Women With No Equipment

Contrary to popular belief, you don’t have to have this massive in home gym to get you body in shape or even belong to some fancy pants gym that charges you a bajillion dollars, but you’re low key not even sure how to work most of the equipment. 

All you need is you. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of cross training, I’m a proponent of moving resistance in the form of additional weight because all of those things will benefit your body as well and not just in the immediate. When we think of the longevity of our lives and what quality we want that life to be, we need to take care of the body we have, so yes girl you need to be doing different modalities of fitness. In the long run, for a variety of reasons, this will pay off for your overall health and well being.

But in the immediate, when you are maybe learning what you’re doing, maybe you’re intimidated by the prospect of walking into a huge gym, or maybe you just don’t have time right now to go to the gym, there’s still options.

That option my friend, is you. Your body is perfectly equipped as it is to make you sweat, to burn calories, to keep your forward momentum to your weight loss and healthy living goals. You just have to know how to use it. 

Before we get into the exercises I regularly turn to so I make sure I move my body, I want to provide this disclaimer: I know you can YouTube everything under the sun and you should if there’s an exercise that you’re not familiar with because it’ll give you a basic idea. But if you want a solid breakdown of not just how to do the exercise correctly, but also whether or not YOU are doing it correctly, working with a coach is key. You might be busting out reps on an exercise and thinking that you’re totally kicking ass, only to come to find out that you’ve been doing it incorrectly for next to forever and potentially putting yourself in a place where you can cause injury. In that same thought, you could be doing an exercise, it could feel funky and totally off, and you might have NO idea how to fix whatever it is that you’re doing.

Don’t go at this alone. Ask advice, throw your questions to your coach (hey that’s me!), make sure you’re doing things correctly. It’s worth it in the long run.

Now that my safety speech is out of the way here’s what I do:

• Squats

• Burpees

• Push ups

• Lunges (forward, backward, lateral)

• High knees

• Butt kickers

• Heisman

• Mountain climbers

• Side planks

• Planks